The Enlightenment. By Ritchie Robertson.Allen Lane; 1,008 pages; £40. To be published in America by Harper in February; $45. IN SEPTEMBER THE University of Edinburgh expunged the name of David Hume ...
Wherever we look today in academia, scholars are rushing to defend the Enlightenment ideas of political and individual liberty, human rights, faith in scientific reason, secularism, and the freedom of ...
In this interview, exclusive for CounterPunch, Richard Whatmore discusses his latest book, The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis (Penguin, 2023). In a world that demands highly rational ...
The churches relationship to the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment is an entangled history. Margaret Jacobs (“The Enlightenment critique of Christianity,” in The Cambridge History of ...
John Keane receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC). The disintegration of Europe that the world is witnessing, and in some quarters beginning to fear, no doubt has multiple causes ...
In a study with chilling modern resonance, the history don contends that the age of reason was betrayed by the greed, corruption and barbarism of Britain’s ruling elite Britain, thought Thomas Paine, ...
Since the Dark Ages when Christianity became Scotland’s religion it had been accepted without question that God had created the world in seven days at some point in the past. Antiquated accounts of ...
On Buddha Purnima, as millions reflect on the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha, one image quietly stands at the centre of this spiritual journey—the Bodhi Tree. More than just a tree, it ...
At the beginning of July 1973, my wife and I arrived in London from Chicago to spend a year doing research in the British Library. Many things conspired to show us that we were not in Kansas anymore: ...
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